" This isn't a safety tunnel, it's a buffet "

Rating: 9/10 (25 November 2013)

Guillermo Del Toro directed this futuristic story by Travis Beacham and created a futurist setting where Mankind is faced with total annihilation. Attacking from within a Time-energy portal, a series of Gigantic and colossal monsters set about to destroy the world's populations and absorb it's natural resources. To stop them, the world's humans do what they have never ever done before, they unite. Crafting colossal Robots the humans enclose two mentally linked pilots (Charlie Hunnam and Diego Klattenhoff) to combat their adversaries in the deep oceanic trenches of the Pacific Ocean. Idris Elba plays the General in charge of Operations and Ron Perlman plays the scavenger parts dealer. The movie is one gigantic world wide conflict with titanic battles and super powerful beings and there is no shortage of super struggles. The Humans are hard pressed to fight the incredible monsters, while the creatures are Ratcheting up their plan of world conquest. If one were to select a slight criticism of the movie I would ask why 90% of the movie is filmed in the dark. It is difficult to study all the fantastic art work which went into the filming and the story itself is hobbled by inconclusive ends which remain unresolved. Still what there is of it has the audience mesmerized with gigantic battles which absorbed every bit of interest in the theater. This movie is one for the Classics and one would not be surprised if it generates a sequel. Easily recommended. ****